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minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·10 months agoIt is the alchemy to the chemistry is what they are saying
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·10 months agoAnd how many people are still using Alchemy?
minus-squareexplodicle@local106.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·10 months agoThey told us the history of alchemy in chemistry class, it’s good to know the context.
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·10 months agoYes, but no one credible still uses it. Which was the point I was making.
minus-squarebeardown@lemm.eecakelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·10 months ago“I turned 5 pounds of lead into gold this morning using this one weird trick that chemists HATE! Subscribe to my premium substack to learn more!”
minus-squareRodeo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down3·10 months agoSo not at all based in science? Interesting as a historical curiosity but nothing more?
minus-squaremaynarkh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·10 months agoInteresting because of the psychological insights into not how all people are, but how people make up theories in general. Same way religion has scientific significance in an anthropological sense.
minus-squareRodeo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoPerhaps “historical curiosity” was a little obtuse of me.
It is the alchemy to the chemistry is what they are saying
And how many people are still using Alchemy?
They told us the history of alchemy in chemistry class, it’s good to know the context.
Yes, but no one credible still uses it. Which was the point I was making.
“I turned 5 pounds of lead into gold this morning using this one weird trick that chemists HATE! Subscribe to my premium substack to learn more!”
So not at all based in science? Interesting as a historical curiosity but nothing more?
Interesting because of the psychological insights into not how all people are, but how people make up theories in general. Same way religion has scientific significance in an anthropological sense.
Perhaps “historical curiosity” was a little obtuse of me.